Article: India Be Accepted as Nuclear Weapons State: Official

An Indian senior official said Thursday that the core issue for India to accept any formal measure to restrain its nuclear capabilities was its acceptance as a nuclear weapons state by the nuclear weapons powers.

Giving a lecture on "India, Europe and Non-Proliferation" at Jawahrlal Nehru University here, Jasjit Singh, director of the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), said that as India was unlikely to join the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) or any fissile material cut-off treaty, a protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) can be attached where countries like

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